If you’ve already had one strain of the flu, you can still get another, health officials warn, as large numbers of infections in 47 states drive a second peak to the flu season.
season has picked up steam again, causing large numbers of infections in 47 states, according to the latest numbers from the CDC.
What’s more, A strains of the virus have outpaced B strains as the biggest drivers of infections, giving the season a rare second peak. “We may well have, for the second year in a row -- unprecedented -- a double-barreled influenza season,” says William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.Schaffner says he’s aware of at least two cases of patients having the flu from a B strain, and then getting sick again with an A strain just weeks later.“This year, we started with B-Victoria. Now it looks like we’re getting a surge in H1N1,” which is an A strain, he says.
More than 10,000 people have been hospitalized with the flu this season. The highest rate of hospitalizations is in adults over age 65.
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